A Combinator Library for Prefix-Free Codes

Emin Karayel 🌐

April 8, 2022

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Abstract

This entry contains a set of binary encodings for primitive data types, such as natural numbers, integers, floating-point numbers as well as combinators to construct encodings for products, lists, sets or functions of/between such types. For natural numbers and integers, the entry contains various encodings, such as Elias-Gamma-Codes and exponential Golomb Codes, which are efficient variable-length codes in use by current compression formats. A use-case for this library is measuring the persisted size of a complex data structure without having to hand-craft a dedicated encoding for it, independent of Isabelle's internal representation.

License

BSD License

Topics

Session Prefix_Free_Code_Combinators